Roy Hattersley, who served as deputy leader of the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock, has died at the age of 93.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to Lord Hattersley as “a giant of the Labour movement”.<\/p>\n
The Sheffield-born politician entered parliament in 1964 as the MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook, a post he held for more than three decades. <\/p>\n
He served as a cabinet minister under James Callaghan in the 1970s and became the party’s deputy leader in opposition for nine years following its historic defeat to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in 1983.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir said: “Through decades of service, including as deputy leader and a minister, he never lost his belief in a more equal Britain.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts are with his wife Maggie and his family.”<\/p>\n
Lord Hattersley entered the cabinet as secretary of state for prices and consumer protection in 1976, before Labour was thrust into opposition three years later – after which he vocally opposed the party’s shift to the left.<\/p>\n
As deputy leader, he encouraged his party to embrace multilateral disarmament, the market economy and the European Union.<\/p>\n
He was made a life peer as Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook after leaving the Commons in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Hattersley, who served as deputy leader of the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock, has died at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}